What’s on at Medowie...22nd Mar PSSA Netball Gala Day

26th Mar Whole School Athletics Carnival at Kindlebark Oval

PSSA Touch Trials - Boys and Girls

27th Mar PSSA Rugby Union Trials

28th Mar P & C Disco - See flyer on page 8

29th Mar Whole School Assembly 2.20pm

4th April Hunter Girls Soccer Trials

11th April Easter Hat Parade 9.30am

12th April ANZAC ceremony 10.00am

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL-TERM 1

30th April Students return to school - Term 2

Notes in CirculationAthletics Carnival-permission to be in by Friday 22/3/19

Thursday 21st March 2019Term 1 Week 8Medowie Public School

Class 2R

On Tuesday I had a number of students show me some excellent work they had completed in mathematics from 2R. It was lovely to see them very excited about the work they had completed. I’d like to acknowledge Mrs Hunt in leading our staff in understanding the

new mathematics framework our staff are under-taking this year called ‘A Learning Place, A Teach-ing Place’. We have a strong mentoring culture with-in our school with staff learning from one another.

Shout Out

I’d like to recognise a beautiful act that one of our students displayed last week. Janaya do-nated her hard-earned pocket money to sup-port the World’s Great-est Shave. Money raised from this event supports the Leukaemia Founda-tion. Our school is very proud of her independence, selflessness and kindness. What a great model she is for us all!

Regional Swimming Carnival

Congratulations to Beau and Alannah who recent-ly represented our school at the regional swimming carnival. They swam extremely well and demonstrated a pos-itive attitude all day. At this level they were among some very tough opposi-tion.

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Merit AwardsLast week our PBL focus was about being resilient. It was lovely to see students being recognised for showing this necessary life skill. Also, during our as-sembly 5/6R performed an item. They had obviously rehearsed which allowed them to perform the song ‘Anywhere’ very professionally.

Pick Up and Drop Offs

I would like to remind everyone again about their need to be responsible in parking their cars outside of the school. We explicitly teach our students how to be responsible through PBL and as parents we should want to be good role models by demonstrating this expectation for our children. Please make sure you are not parking your car over driveways, having your children walk through the service station or have them playing unattended. This also extends to stu-dents who are catching the bus. A large number of children do not have their Opal cards. Students are expected to tap on and off. Apart from this being a

requirement of bus travel, the data is capsulated to determine the need for bus runs. At a recent police forum I attended, fare evasion is one of the biggest of-fences committed by young people (between the ages of 14 and 18) in the Raymond Terrace area. It made me think ‘Is this number so high because students did not use their Opal card in primary school’. Thank you for your cooperation in ensuring we are all doing our part in the community by being good citizens.

Woolworths Earn and Learn

Woolworths Earn and Learn is coming back again this year. Mr Wells registered our school this week. A box will be kept in the office for when the supermarket be-ings handing out the stickers. In 2017 our school was able to receive a variety of equipment to assist our stu-dents and their learning. If you shop at Woolworths it would be greatly appreciated if you could collect the stickers when they start handing them out again.

Medowie School History

Recently I received some history about Medowie Pub-lic School and thought it would be nice to share it with everyone. The first teacher of Medowie Public School was a lady named Miss Sara Cole. She presided over the school for seventeen years. She came to Australia with her parents from Ireland and settled in Toma-go. Medowie Public School opened nearly 125 years ago. The site of the original school is at the Bounda-ry Road entrance and has a centenary plaque to mark the sport. The school was originally called New Gl-

NO BANKING

Just a reminder to all our banking students that there will be no banking on Tuesday 26th March due to the Athletics Carnival.

Banking will resume on Tuesday 2nd April.

Thank you

anmorgan School and was renamed in 1895 to Medowie.

Harmony Day

Our school is officially celebrating Harmony Day tomorrow. All students will participate in con-structing a togetherness tree. Each student will create a leaf hand that will be applied to the tree. As well as this activity our students are engaging in school language based activities which extends from today through to the end of the next week. We have 7 different languages identified in our immediate school community. These are Finn-ish, Mandarin, Polish, Macedonian, Vietnamese, Hindi and the Aboriginal dialect of the Wori-mi people, Gathang. In regards to Gathang, the United Nations General Assembly have declared this year as the International year of Indigenous Languages. Whilst we have specific Gathang language lessons with Sharon Edgar-Jones, Har-mony Day is a great way to raise awareness of the crucial role languages play in people’s daily lives. In Australia, of the estimated original 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languag-es, only around 120 are still spoken. Each class is trying to spotlight one of the languages each day to celebrate the diversity we have in our own backyards. Our staff would encourage families to ask their children what words and/or cultural in-formation they can share with you over the next 7 days.

Allison ThompsonPrincipal

M.P.S Book Fair 2019

Thank you to everyone who supported our book fair this year! We raised a total of $5467.70. Our commis-sion off this amount will go directly towards new resources for our library and classrooms!

A big THANK YOU to the wonderful parent volunteers who so generously donated their time assisting throughout the week. It would not be possible to run these events with out you.

On Monday morning during assembly, the raffle for the book fair was drawn, with the following children each receiving a free book:

Brax KW Samantha 3/4H David 5/6H Campbell 3/4N Emily K/1M Thomas K/1M

Congratulations to these lucky winners. Mrs Bertsos (Teacher-Librarian)

PSSA Zone and Hunter Regional Trials

There has been a wide range of sporting opportunities for Stage 3 to represent Medowie Public School at PSSA trials. Some of these students have been selected to represent the PSSA at Hunter Trials.

Cricket – Nikhil, Logan and Sam

Sam was selected to attend Hunter Trials.

Soccer – Dylan, Emilee, Logan, Beau and Harry

Emilee and Logan were selected to attend Hunter Trials

Rugby League – Will and Sam Both boys were selected to attend Hunter Trials.

Touch Football– Will, Oscar, Emilee, and Beau

AFL – Kiendryx and Jackson

Kim Johnson.

Positive Messagesby 5/6W

P & C News

Cadbury Chocolate FundraiserWe have had such a great response to our Cadbury Chocolates Fundraiser and we thank all the families who have collected a box already. There are still some boxes available! Boxes are available for collection from the office or you can always contact us via email pandcmedowie@hotmail.com to make alternative arrangements for the choc-olates to be delivered to you.

Please start returning money to the office before the end of our fundraiser on 5 April 2019.Thank you to everyone who has collected a box and returned money already.

Easter DiscoThursday March 285.00-6.30pmEntry $2Canteen openParents please stay to supervise your children.

Mother’s Day DonationsBoxed chocolates like Cadbury Favourites and Mars Celebrations would be greatly appreciated as donations for our Mother’s Day Stall. These will be added to other gift items already supplied. Please deliver your donation to the office labelled “Mother’s Day”.

AGM ResultsP&C’s newly elected Executives are Melanie Levy as President, Nicola Mitchener and Kate Lord as Vice Presidents, Kim Astin as Treasurer and Kelly Field as Secretary. We were also privileged to welcome some new members. For all interested parents and citizens, P&C membership is open all year-round.

Thank you for supporting Medowie Public School through P&C events. To contact P&C, email pandcmedowie@hotmail.com.

P&C would love to hear from you!Please complete and return to the school office. Thank you.

Name ________________________________________

Phone ________________________________________

Email __________________________________________________________________________________

I’m interested in helping in Canteen

I’m interested in helping in the Uniform Shop

I’m interested in helping with fundraising activities like discos, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Stalls

I’m part of an organization that may be able to donate to P&C fundraising events

Please let me know when the next P&C meeting is on

Other comments/questions

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Medowie Public School P&C Association invite you to our

Easter Disco Thursday, 28th March 5.00pm – 6.30pm $2.00 entry

Canteen will be open Parents are to remain at School to supervise

children

SRE in 2019.Welcome to the 2019 School year and a special welcome to families new to the school. This piece is to inform you about SRE (Scripture) for 2019.

Christian Special Religious Education (SRE) classes introduce children to Jesus, the Bible and Christianity. There are many benefits of choosing to allow your child to attend SRE. SRE helps parents educate their children in matters of faith.

SRE encourages children to embrace the Golden Rule: Treat others as you would have them treat you.

Bible stories enrich our understanding of the English language and literature, ex-plore the geography and history of the Middle East

SRE illustrate the Christian values underlying Australian society.

SRE classes are a place to ask the spiritual questions like: Is God real? Can I see God?

The SRE teachers are volunteers who are authorised by their local churches, have Child Protection Training, have had a Working With Children Check and are completing approved SRE training.

What do SRE teachers teach? As your children progress through their school years, material suitable to their development stage will be taught. The material used has been approved by the Department of Education and Training. The major stories and themes of the bible are covered. Stories and storytelling, songs, activity sheets, games, craft, drama and prayer may be used in lessons. The moral/ethical codes of the bible are studied. Also included is information about ancient culture, creation care, history and modern day language.

The curriculum is bible-based and SRE teachers encourage children to actively engage with the lessons and interactive technology, music and a variety of other teaching mate-rials may be used to capture the children’s interest.

Children can attend either Catholic SRE (Vynette Shrimpton is the Co-ordinator) or Non-Denominational SRE (Debbie Gill is the Co-ordinator) and families do not have to be attending a Church to attends SRE.Thank you for the privilege of teaching your child this year.

HI,

If there are any families who have any of the following resources and would like to donate them for the STEM groups it would be greatly appreciated.

1.Woollen or Acrylic Gloves- any size, any colour - singles or both hands2.Sewing needles- large and medium3.Thread- fine and medium4.String5.Wool6.Nail varnish- clear7.Felt- various8.Wire strippers & cutters- to borrow or use on a long or short term basis9.Small (empty) drink bottles- water or other10.Bottle tops- various11.Any working mobile phones for robotics12.Wire- as fine as possible13.Polytube- clear or opaque- the diameter (across) size of a 50 cent piece OR larger

Thanks,Sue Purvis